There are a fair number of little netbooks with SSD drives (my brother in law has a 3 or 4 year old one running Linux).
You'd think we'd hear about those SSDs failing. Any idea if their failure rate is any different? Maybe the usage pattern is different?

As an early advocate of solid state hard drives … The State of Solid State Hard Drives (October 2009) Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives (October 2010) … I feel ethically and morally obligated to let you in on a dirty little secret I've discovered in the last two years of full time SSD owne...